Lawsuit: Georgia voter registration process violates the law

Lawsuit: Georgia voter registration process violates the law

Georgia’s voter registration process violates the Voting Rights Act and has prevented tens of thousands of residents, mostly minorities, from registering to vote, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Under a policy implemented in 2010, people aren’t added to voter rolls if identifying information on their applications doesn’t exactly match information in databases maintained by the Georgia Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration, the lawsuit says. “Wh…See all stories on this topic

Junior Litigation Legal Secretary Needed for Miami Based Law Firm

Junior Litigation Legal Secretary Needed for Miami Based Law Firm (Miami, Florida) Pacin Levine, P.A. is a rapidly expanding South Florida Law Firm …See all stories on this topic

SEC, city of Miami lay out final arguments in bond case

By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the city of Miami squared off in Florida federal court on Tuesday, with the regulator accusing city officials of playing a financial shell game to cut costs on a $150 million municipal bond sale in 2009. In a 2013 complaint, the SEC alleged that the city and Miami’s former budget director, Michael Boudreaux, violated the anti-fraud provisions of federal securities law. Both the city and Boudreaux denied any wr…See all stories on this topic

French unions stage last-ditch resistance against labor law

With strikes and protests, French unions are staging a last-ditch bid to dismantle a labor law that weakens their powers and worker protections. However the labor action appeared low-key Thursday morning, with only minimal disruption to schools, transport and other public services. The civil aviation authority said 15 percent of flights were cancelled at Paris area airports. A protest is planned through Paris later. Unions are protesting a labor law adopted this summer that allows longer workwe…See all stories on this topic

Syria cease-fire deal rife with legal, liability questions

The deal crafted by the U.S. and Russia to halt the Syrian civil war and focus efforts on rooting out extremists is rife with legal and liability questions that are fueling Pentagon skepticism about military cooperation between the two powers, senior U.S. officials said. The first hurdle is that Congress has enacted a law prohibiting any military cooperation with Moscow in the wake of Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine. That means the deal that Secretary of State John Kerry and…See all stories on this topic